Orbital Vehicle

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Image source: National Archives

6:10 INTO SPACE

Third release week of November 15, 1971 

THE 6:10 INTO SPACE. NASA is working on the design of a winged shuttle craft to resupply the manned space stations of the next decade. The giant space transports shown here can carry 50,000 pounds of men and cargo to the cluster of cylinders that make up a space base, the return to Earth and land like airplanes.

 Credit: North American Rockwell

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

NASA Earth Orbital Space Station

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
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76-HC-632

This is what an artist envisioned the Solar Power Satellite would look like. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna. The solar power satellite was to be located in a geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 miles above the Earth’s surface.

Image credit: NASA

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Atlas Space Station

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Orbital Workshop

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs

Migrator (Cutaway)

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Space Station

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Drew Granston